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I have a system service which creates a helper interactive process as administrator so that it can access some desktop-related resources, including the BlockInput() function and NVIDIA's NVAPI functions, which cannot be run from a service. When the logged on user was a member of Administrators, the following worked: Set privilege levels, including SE_TCB_NAME Get active session ID with WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId() Get logged on user from session ID with WTSQueryUserToken() GetTokenInformation() with TokenLinkedToken DuplicateTokenEx() with SecurityImpersonation Launch process with

I am quite new with NSIS. I am trying to request administrator permissions in order to run the installer, as it messes around a bit with registries. My problem with "RequestExecutionLevel" and "MULTIUSER_EXECUTIONLEVEL" is that they both absolutely block any non-Admin user from opening the installer, even when selecting "Run as Administrator" in the context menu. I have tried using the RunAs DLL, but I have not found a single thread as to what to put in the $command variable passed to "RunAsW" function. Here is my (pretty hacked-up) code: StrCpy $0 0 StrCpy $1 "" System::Call 'RunAs:

I'am using Visual Studio 2010, how to set or automatically change owner of the output file from Visual Studio (such as executable file) to user other than administrator? all output files currently is owned by Administrator (due to Visual studio is launch by administrative privilege), so sometime I can't delete those files due to access permissions. sometime visual studio itself can't delete it too (after i ran the executable) until few minutes, its really annoying when I need to rebuild those executable. anyone know what's the actual problem here? error message is : error LNK1168: cannot open

I know that we shouldn't being using the registry to store Application Data anymore, but in updating a Legacy application (and wanting to do the fewest changes), what Registry Hives are non-administrators allowed to use? Can I access all of HKEY_CURRENT_USER (the application currently access HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ) without Administrator privileges? Euro Micelli In general, a non-administrator user has this access to the registry: Read/Write to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Read Only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (which is just a link to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes ) It is possible to change

On Windows 7, I have a command-line program that fails due to file write permission errors, and popping up annoying UAC dialogs every time I run command-line programs that are from an 'unknown publisher'. However, if I start my console by right clicking and choosing 'run as administrator', then the install works fine, even if the UAC dialogs are still present. My user is already a member of the 'administrators' group, so what precisely does 'run as administrator' do that makes my install work? My specific question is precisely: What does 'run as administrator' do? Neither of the answers thus

I need to determine if my program is running with full administrator rights. By that I mean if uac is turned on (for win vista/7) that I need to determine if the program actually has admin rights (like if the user right clicked and selected "run as administator") and not limited by uac. How do I do this in C++? Win9x: Everyone is "admin" NT4: OpenThreadToken/OpenProcessToken + GetTokenInformation(...,TokenGroups,...) on DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS SID in a loop 2000+: OpenThreadToken/OpenProcessToken + CheckTokenMembership on DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS SID Other alternatives are: IsUserAnAdmin or

Can anyone help me with running vbs from itself but with administrator rights? I need rename computer with Windows 8 via VBScript, but it's possible only if I run my script through administrator command line (CMD → Run as Administrator → runScript.vbs). If I start script with classic CMD the computer isn't renamed. My idea is I start script with user rights, without parameters and if there is no parameter, the script re-runs itself with admin rights and with parameter as identificator "I'm admin". Does anyone know how I can do this? Edit: I tried this: If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then Set